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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 2004; B.A. in History, Yale University, 1992.

Research Interests: African American studies, performance studies, childhood studies, and racial formation.

Appointments: Dillon Professor of American History, Harvard University (current); Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Awards: Bancroft Prize (2012) for Racial Innocence, William Sanders Scarborough Prize.

Publications:

• Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2011).

Additional Contributions: Co-editor, African American Review; public historian on race and childhood.